Bombay, fire up your photocopiers
Notorious song thief Pritam Chakraborty, the Carlos Mencia of Bombay, lifted a K-pop song for ‘Pehli Nazar (First Glance),’ used in Race (thanks, brown_dbd). He ‘worked’ on Gangster, which was set in South Korea, so you just knew a K-lift was inevitable.
What I like about the video above is that someone’s gone to the effort of splicing the songs together. The final song is an improvement on both, IMO, and is what an authorized collaboration might sound like. And it’s not a mashup. There’s no creative clash of sounds. The splice underlines in wide-tipped marker that Chakraborty’s take is not an adaptation, it’s a theft.
on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008, 9:30 am in Film, Music, Video clips › 
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Have this website? It’s incomplete, but very interesting.
aw maan… tears of sadness :.(
I like this song…very interesting music and nice lyrics..I like the voice too..though if Adnan sami sang this song it would be more haunting…longing melody as his voice has this strange melancholy and longing..This singer is good too..
thanks Manish..
i totally adore Atif! His song “Tere Bin” from the movie with the same name is really amazing!
Its amazing that this guy Pritam keeps stealing with impunity. He is not even trying to hide the cheating.
The lead vocal was a lot more prominent in the “stolen” version v/s the original. Atif’s has powerful voice.
Why create something new when we can adapt from somewhere else?
Reminds me of this.
Cribbing from the vilayat is old hat. I, for one, look forward to a music career built on recycled Anu Malik and Bappida ditties. Maybe, an “inspired” version of Jimmy Jimmy set to Chura Liya?
Copying (or “inspiration”) is very common in bollywood.
A song called “Uncha lamba kad” from the film “Welcome” (whose script is blatantly copied from “Mickey blue eyes”) sounds very very similar to another Hindi movie song called “Makhna” from an oldermovie, “Bade miyan Chhote miya”. I am not sure who was the composer of the songs.
that first splice is so good i thot it was the same track… nice one
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